sometimes I do

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I have been happily playing with the spray paint again as you can see, what? I like my Easter tree and this year I have made a little display with chocolate eggs and a hen, although I don’t know how long that will last hahaha.

Saturday just gone (31st March) number 1 and I headed into Birmingham to partake of a little Fierce Festival. We went to have a look at the Dachshund UN which was rather cute, well what I could see of it anyway. A scale replica of the united nations general assembly with the politicians represented by Dachshunds. The way it was set out needed work, crowds of people stood around the small barrier ment anyone more than a couple of rows back couldn’t see a thing, this led to people standing on tables and chairs to get a better look, and yes we did too. Most of the photos were taken by number 1 waving my camara above his head, we did find that if we went into the Ikon and into the tower we could get a small glimpse of them from above. A much better way would have been to have a walk through, keep the crowd moving. Everyone would have had a chance to see it then and could have joined the back of the queue again if they had wished.

The speaker needed a little encouragement

Big brother is watching you or he will be soon I have no doubt that at first it will be to help them track terrorists, crime gangs and those that insight riots, but how long before that turns to ‘oh that person has wrote that about emigration, we can’t have that. Let’s arrest them’ or ‘Ms. Jones has written that about the government, get her ‘it will come people. Read 1984.

I feel we are becoming far too dependent on some types of technology, no one talks to anyone anymore, people can be sat in the same room and will email or text each other. Most shops now have self serve checkouts, our doctors has a computer you log into to say you have arrived, (although I don’t use either, when ushered to a self serve I always say, I want to be served by a live person thank you, and I can put up with the tuts from the doctors receptionist). So a challenge to the world, for one hour go to somewhere green, or by the sea/river. Turn off your phone, iPod, tablet, any device that keeps you in touch with the outside world and sit, breath and listen to mother nature, look around you, really look, see the colours and shapes, feel the warmth, cold, the rain, you know what you might just realise you don’t need that laptop/phone 24/7.